Four years ago, we committed to building an infrastructure solution for the mid-market. Windows Essential Business Server (EBS) which was the first of its kind to meet the unique needs of mid-market IT pros. Since that time the market landscape has naturally...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Ed Walters] System Center Essentials 2007 (SCE) is a unified management solution that is included with the Essential Business Server package. The application is installed on the Management Server and is designed to...

Microsoft Essential Business Server team is excited to announce the release of Microsoft IT Environment Health Scanner, the new diagnostic tool designed for administrators of small or medium-sized networks who want to assess the overall health of their...

I’d like to do two things right off the bat in this, my first, blog post here… 1) Announce that Windows Essential Business Server 2008 has reached RTM! (English now, more languages to come soon) 2) Extend my sincere gratitude to the many customers...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill and Chris Puckett] Updated 12/11/2009 – Added msiexec /fp instructions. You may see installation failures of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 ( KB951847 ) on the 3 EBS 2008 Standard Edition...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] System Center Essentials 2007 SP1 (SCE 2007) included with Essential Business Server 2008 now fully supports Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 clients, but there are a few manual steps that must...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Stephen Li] Recently Microsoft Exchange 2007 released Service Pack 2 . This SP2 enables customers to increase their operational efficiency and it sets the foundation for the transition to Exchange Server 2010....

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] Updated 10/14/2009 with additional steps for Security Server. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition with Advanced Services Service Pack 3 (KB955706) fails to install on the EBS Management Server...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan] [Updated Content on 7/8/2010] The Autodiscover service, which allows Outlook 2007 and Windows Mobile 6.1 ActiveSync clients to obtain mailbox connection settings with little user intervention, is not...

For those of you who are new to these tools, we’ve talked about the Preparation and Planning Wizards before on our blog . We also have a dedicated page for it here . As well, the team over at TechNet Edge did an article on the tools . These...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] We get a fair number of queries about CAL enforcement in Essential Business Server (EBS) support, so I’d like to try to clear up some of the common questions that our partners have. Because EBS enforces...

  [Today's post comes to us courtesy of John Bay] Summary When Windows Essential Business Server installs, setup will generate a self-signed certificate name based on the name of you specify during installation.  The certificate name will always...

There have been quite a few discussions, blogs, and articles on some of the challenges with deploying and running Exchange on a domain controller. In 2006, Robert Moir wrote a detailed blog titled “ Running Exchange on a Domain Controller .” In his blog...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Wayne McIntyre, Damian Leibaschoff, Chris Puckett, and Justin Crosby] Microsoft recently published a hotfix for resource exhaustion in the TDI interface of Windows 2008 in KB 961775. This resource exhaustion may...

[ Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Shawn Sullivan and Justin Crosby] ** This post has been re-written on 8/25/2011 to cover a wider range of scenarios that have been generating an increasing amount of traffic recently. The EBS 2008 Messaging Server...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Alok Goyal] My name is Alok Goyal and I am a part of the Essential Business Server (EBS) team. Today, I wanted to talk about a new document I posted on the Microsoft Connect site. The document is titled "Site...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Vikramjit Singh, Stephen Li, and Mark Stanfill] Updated 10/29/2009 to reflect IT Environment Health Scanner information. If you are preparing to install EBS 2008 in an environment with Windows 2000 DNS servers, you...

[Today's post come to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] You may receive multiple prompts for authentication from Outlook clients connected to an EBS Messaging Server at roughly 5 minute intervals.  Both local and Outlook Anywhere clients can encounter...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Ed Walters and Mark Stanfill] By default, the Windows Server 2008 Default Domain Policy sets passwords to expire every 42 days.  This includes the built-in Administrator account as well if it has not been manually...

[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Manish Kapoor] INTRODUCTION This article describes how to reinstall Microsoft® Forefront™ Threat Management Gateway, Medium Business Edition on Windows® Essential Business Server Security Server. ...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server with Service Pack 2 (FSE SP2) is now available. This is an optional but recommended update for FSE customers, including EBS customers. The download...

The EBS product is unique in that it is intended to provide a complete Windows based IT infrastructure for medium sized companies that is deployed all at once as a single product. During the course of the EBS deployment Windows 2008, Exchange 2007 , System...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Mark Stanfill] When trying to browse through the OWA Address Book on a default EBS configuration, the first page of the address book will load, but attempts to browse to subsequent pages will fail with the error:...

Possibly one of the most exciting topics in the market today – well perhaps not as exciting as EBS, but close! Earlier this week we ran a special session for our partners covering the intended support details for running Windows Essential Business...

[Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Robert Paige from the Windows Server Partner Ecosystem Team] We wanted to resurface a continuing support issue with deployments that we first commented on back in December of 2009 , and again in a March post on the...